B.8. 78] laws RELATING to GAME and BIRDS 13 
of this act and regulations made pursuant thereto, including the payment of 
su<h rent, and the employment of such persons and moans, as the Secretary of 
Agriculture may deem necessary, in the District of Columbia ami elsewhere. 
cooperation with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds, and 
necessary investigations connected therewith: Provided, That no person who 
Is subject to the draft for service in the Army or Navy shall be exempted or 
excused from such service by reason of his employment under this act. 
Sec. 10. Tliat if any clause, sentence^ paragraph, or part of this act shall, for 
any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, 
such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but 
shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part 
thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have 
been rendered. 
Sec. 11. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this 
act are hereby repealed. 
Sec. 12. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the breeding of 
migratory game birds on farms and preserves and the sale of birds so bred 
under proper regulations for the purpose of increasing the food supply. 
Sec. 13. That this act shall become effective immediately upon its passage 
and approval. 
LACEY ACT, REGULATING INTERSTATE COMMERCE IN WILD 
ANIMALS * 
Federal laws affecting the shipment of wild animals comprise statutes regu- 
lating interstate commerce by common carrier in the dead bodies or parts 
thereof, and the importation of live birds and mammals from foreign countries, 
as follows : 
[U. S. Code. Title 18, Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure] 
Sec. 301. The importation into the United States, or any Territory or District 
thereof, of the mongoose, the so-called "flying foxes," or fruit bats, the English 
sparrow, the starling, and such other birds and animals as the Secretary of 
Agriculture may from time to time declare to be injurious to the interests of 
agriculture or horticulture, is hereby prohibited ; and all such birds and ani- 
mals, shall, upon arrival at any port of the United States, be destroyed or 
returned at the expense of the owner. No person shall import into the United 
States or into any Territory or District thereof any foreign wild animal or bird, 
except under special permit from the Secretary of Agriculture: Provided, That 
nothing in this section shall restrict the importation of natural-history speci- 
mens for museums or scientific collections, or of certain cage birds, such as 
domesticated canaries, parrots, or such other birds as the Secretary of Agri- 
culture may designate. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to 
make regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this section.' (Act 
of March 4. 1909, sec. 241—35 Stat. 1137.) 
Sec. 392. It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver to any common 
carrier for transportation, or for any common carrier to transport from any 
State, Territory, or District of the United States to any other State. Territory. 
or District thereof, any foreign animals or birds the importation of which 
is prohibited, or the dead bodies or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds.* 
where such animals or birds have been killed or shipped in violation of the laws 
of the State, Territory, or District in which the same were killed, or from 
which they were shipped : Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the 
transportation of any dead birds or animals killed during the season when the 
same may be lawfully captured, and the export of which is not prohibited 
by law in the State, Territory, or District in which the same are captured or 
killed. (Act of March 4, 1909. sec. 242—35 Stat 1137.) 
♦For sees. 2, 3, and 4 of the act of May 25, 1900 — 31 Suit. 187-1 SS— which was super- 
seded by sees. 241-244 of the act of March 4. 1000 — 35 Stat. 1137 — see sees. 301-394 of 
U. S. Code, title 18; for sec. 5 of the act of May 25. 1900. see sec. 395 of title 18; and 
for sec. 1. see sec. 701 of title 16. 
5 See joint regulations (S. R. A. — B. S. 69). effective November 21. 1927, troverninE the 
importation of bobwhlte quail from Mexico, copies of which may be obtained free of charge 
from the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Washington, D. C. 
•See sec. 4 of the migratory bird treaty act, p. 11, which supersedes this part of the 
Lacey Act relative to the interstate transportation of wild birds. 
